Look for the red things
Me: The thing is, there’s a difference between seeing and noticing. Noticing is when you consciously become aware of something. For example, if I said right now, Look for everything that’s red. You’d see a lot more red things.
Him: (looking around) Great, now all I see are the red things.
Me: (laughing) That’s what happens. You can’t un-notice something you’ve noticed. It’s called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
Updating this blog a bit late because I’ve been trying to finish up a few assignments for clients.
Been watching the news about the three women they found; obviously it reminds me of the Jaycee Dugard story. Just like with her, compounding the basic horror of it all is also the fact that they were cheated out of those years.
Life is so short as it is.
I blinked and I’m 40.
Spalding Gray once said that Everybody knows they are going to die, but no one really believes it. Late at night, when I can’t sleep, I realize what it means and it keeps me up the rest of the night. Like last night.
Doubt you ever noticed, but for the past few years every time I write about dying, I put up a picture of a clock.
As I get older, I see notice more clocks and think about how short it all is.
And you can’t un-notice something you’ve noticed.
Location: in the basement of my brain again
Mood: nostalgic
Music: I don’t mind waiting in line
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Get out of the basement! Time for cocktails on the roof!
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